ADTRAN Delivers the First Fiber-to-the-Home Pilot Network in Athens

ADTRAN®,
Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation
networking solutions, today announced that its GPON platform is enabling
Forthnet to implement the first Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) pilot network
in the metropolitan area of Athens, Greece. This platform will enable
delivery of high-bandwidth triple play services to residential and
business subscribers. With over 2,000 homes initially served in the
municipality of Nea, Forthnet will be able to deliver FTTH based
services that place Athens alongside other high-service density European
FTTH deployments.

Forthnet is an experienced broadband provider that offers a compelling
bundle of sports, movies and entertainment, plus telephony, over its
existing DSL network. The ADTRAN GPON solution allows a simplified
migration of Forthnet’s customer base to the new FTTH services, while
enabling capacity and bandwidth scale for future demands of new
media-rich services.

“We believe our future strategy for the transition to next generation
networks should be based on FTTH architecture,” explains Mr. Giannis
Kavaklis, Chief Commercial Director at Forthnet. “By taking this
approach, we are not only enabling the Metropolitan area of Athens to
make the necessary technology leap, but are also giving local residents
and businesses the opportunity to use new bandwidth hungry applications
without fear of reduced performance or latency. ADTRAN’s FTTH solution
not only gives us the bandwidth required today, but also provides a
simple migration path forward that helps us to stay competitive in our
market in the long term.”

“FTTH is a game changer for service providers like Forthnet,” says Dr.
Eduard Scheiterer, Managing Director, ADTRAN Europe. “What we are
enabling with Forthnet is a new generation of network possibilities that
places Forthnet at the pinnacle of the communication landscape in
Greece. With new high-bandwidth applications being introduced on a
continuous basis, it is important we provide the best technology the
market has to offer. Our GPON solutions give Forthnet maximum
flexibility and the scalability needed to accommodate future network
growth.”

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About Forthnet Group

Forthnet Group is the largest privately owned group that provides
broadband and pay TV services in Greece. The major companies of the
Group are Forthnet S.A, which is active in the field of
telecommunications and is listed in the main market of the Athens Stock
Exchange since 2000, and Multichoice Hellas S.A. and Forthnet Media
Holdings S.A., which, via Nova, the first digital, satellite TV platform
in Greece, are activated in the field of pay TV.

Using state-of-the-art technologies and fully exploiting its knowhow,
Forthnet Group offers a wide range of individual or bundled fixed
telephony, broadband internet and TV-content services, to individuals,
enterprises and Public Bodies throughout Greece. Today, the Group that
brought internet and satellite digital TV in Greece, has a chain of many
shops in more than 60 cities and towns of the country. Forthnet Group is
constantly devoted to the development of pioneering proposals for the
provision of integrated and inexpensive communication and entertainment
services to the Greek family.

About ADTRAN

ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data, video
and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures.
ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private
enterprises, government organizations, and millions of individual users
worldwide. For more information, please visit www.adtran.com.

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